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Executive Branch: Presidential documents & information, federal agencies information, CFR & Federal Register.
Judicial Branch: Federal court information & opinions
Legislative Branch: Constitution, statutes, bills & Congressional information.
Other Recommended Sites: for locating Federal documents, publications & information.
Acronyms, Abbreviations & Glossaries


Executive Branch

Executive Branch Resources on GPO Access
A menu of links to the various resources related to the work of the executive branch that are available on GPO Access.

President

  • White House

  • Compilation of Presidential Documents (FDsys, GPO)
    From the web site description:  "The Compilation of Presidential Documents collection is composed of the Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents and its predecessor, the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents . . . This collection integrates material from the weekly publication dating from 1993, with Daily Compilation material as published from January 20, 2009 – forward."

  • Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents  (GPO Access - 1993 to present).

  • GPO Access - Presidential Materials Page

  • Presidential Signing Statements (Law Library of Congress)
    From the web site: "This guide is intended to serve as an introduction to research on official pronouncements issued by the President of the United States at or near the time a bill is signed into law. Such pronouncements are called signing statements."  Includes links to additional web resources concerning presidential signing statements.

  • POTUS: Presidents of the United States  Information on current and past Presidents & First Ladies (Internet Public Library Project).

  • Presidential Libraries (National Archives and Records Administration)
    Information on researching Presidential materials and links to Presidential libraries.

  • Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
    "OMB assists the President in the development and execution of his policies and programs. OMB has a hand in the development and resolution of all budget, policy, legislative, regulatory, procurement, e-gov, and management issues on behalf of the President."

Agencies

  • Official Federal Government Web Sites - Executive Branch (Library of Congress Internet Resource Page)
    Also includes some independent agencies, boards, commissions, committees and quasi-official agencies.

  • Agency Index (Federal) (Doc-Law Web, Washlaw - Washburn Univ. School of Law)
    Covers executive agencies and independent agencies and establishments. Includes a table with links by agency name to: publications, organizational charts, forms, opinions, maunuals, libraries and directories.

  • Federal Administrative Decisions & other Actions (Government Information Resources University of Virginia Library)
    Links to agency documents outside the CFR & Federal Register.  Includes administrative decisions, announcements, manuals, administrative law judge information, E-FOIA reading room material and more. Browsable by agency name or by subject.

  • Regulations.gov
    Find, review and submit comments on Federal government documents that are open for comment and published in the Federal Register, e.g. proposed regulations. Search by keyword or phrase or browse by agency name.

  • Justia: Regulation Tracker
    Similar to the Regulations.gov web site (above). Notable additional features include: retrospective coverage back to 2005 and an RSS feed subscription.

  • U.S. Department of Justice
    Click on the DOJ Agencies link to locate the web page of a particular bureau, division, service or office within the DOJ, e.g. FBI, Civil Rights Division, Office of Legal Counsel, Office of the Attorney General.

Judicial Branch

Federal Judiciary Home Page (Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts).

Federal Judicial Center Home Page

U.S. Courts - Links (Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts)
Links to Federal court web sites, arranged by circuit. Includes circuit, district and other federal courts.

Federal Courts Finder (Emory Law Library)

Federal Judicial Nominations (Lillian Goldman Library, Yale Law School)

History of the Federal Judiciary (Federal Judicial Center)
Provides a "Federal Judges Biographical Database" covering Federal judges since 1789, descriptions and legislative history information of the various Federal courts, full text of "Landmark Judicial Legislation", "Topics in Judicial History", a "Historic Courthouse Photograph Exhibit" with over 600 images of federal courthouses, essays on the creation and administration of the federal judiciary, including various administrative bodies, a “Timeline for Landmark Judicial Legislation”, and links to various Federal courts historical programs, such as the Historical Society of the U.S. Courts in the 8th Circuit 

PACER: Public Access to Court Electronic Records   PACER FAQ
Case and docket information from Federal Appellate, District and Bankruptcy courts.

Supreme Court
Supreme Court Opinions, Records & Briefs

Circuit Court Web Sites & Opinions


Federal District Courts

  • U.S. Court of Appeals and District Courts Interactive Map (Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts)
    This map displays the geographic boundaries of the Federal U.S. Circuit and District courts. Clicking on a particular Circuit or District will take users to a selection of links to the web sites and Pacer and CM/ECF databases for the courts in that circuit/district.

Federal Courts in Minnesota


Legislative Branch

  • THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet Congressional and legislative information, bills, laws (Library of Congress).

  • GovTrack.us
    "On this site you'll find the status of legislation, the speeches of representatives on the House and Senate floors, voting records, campaign contribution summaries, and more, plus the opinions of other users through their blog entries. And you can follow only the issues that interest you through email updates and RSS feeds."

  • LexisNexis Congressional
    Legislative information, bills, laws and other publications available at workstations in libraries on the Univ. of Minnesota Twin Cities campus.

  • Federal Digital System (FDsys) (U.S. Government Printing Office).
    FDsys provides public access to Government information submitted by Congress and the Federal agenices. Information on the GPO Access is currently in the procces of migration to FDsys. As of 4/24/09 Congressional publications on FDsys include: Bills (103rd Cong. 1993 to present), House & Senate Documents and Senate Treaty Documents (103d Cong., 1993 - present), Congressional Hearings (104th Cong. 1995 - present), the Congressional Record (vol. 140, 1994 - current), Congressional Reports (104th Cong., 1995 - current) and Public and Private Laws (104th Cong., 1995 - current). Documents may also be browsed by legislative body, e.g. House and Senate committees (standing, select, special & other) and by date. A search feature is also available for locating documents.

  • Legislative Branch Resources on GPO Access (U.S. Government Printing Office).
    A menu of links to the various resources related to the work of the legislative branch that are available on GPO Access.

  • United States Senate Home Page

  • LLSDC Legislative Source Book (Compiled by the Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C. - Legislative Research SIS).
    Contains a number of useful resources for researching federal legislative and regulatory history.

  • Center for Legislative Archives (National Archives & Records Administration)
    Includes information on accessing the records congress. Contains finding aids for legislative records and links to online resources.

  • A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation (Library of Congress - American Memory Project)
    U.S. Congressional documents & debates from the Continental Congress, Constitutional Convention, and the 1st-42nd Congresses: 1774-1873. The web site also includes volumes 1-17 of the U.S. Statutes at Large, which contain the laws of the 1st - 42nd Congresses (1789-1873).

  • Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
    The CBO's mission is to "provide Congress with objective, timely nonpartisan analyses needed for economic and budget decisions and with informamtion and estimates required for the Congressional budget process.

  • Government Accountability Office (GAO)
    "The GAO is the audit, evaluation and investigative arm of Congress." Web site includes GAO reports, testimony and Comptroller General Decisions and Opinions.

  • Congressional Research Service Reports (Documents Center, Univ. of Michigan Library)
    University of Michigan Library Documents Center's listing of sources for CRS reports. Many of these same sources are available from the Law Library and Government Publications Library on the U of M campus.

  • Open CRS (Center for Democracy & Technology)
    One of the largest repositories of CRS reports. Open CRS's collection was recently booosted by the acquisition of over 6,000 reports from Wikileaks. CRS Reports provids a Google search box for locating CRS reports. A typical search result includes the report title, date and order number, along with a detailed summary and link(s) to the full-text. In its "collections" section the web site provides links to the major (largest) collections of CRS Reports on the web. The major collections are: National Council for Science and the Environment, Thurgood Marshall Law Library, Federatioon of American Scientists, and the IP Mall at Franklin Pierce Law Center.

  • Congressional Research Service Reports (Memory Hole)
    A collection of over 300 CRS publications in full-text (Short Reports, Long Reports, Issue Briefs and Appropriations Reports), formerly available (access removed Oct. 2003) via Congressional web sites. These copies are in .pdf format courtesy of the Memory Hole.

  • Congressional Research Service Reports (Thurgood Marshall Law Library, Univ. of Maryland Law School)
    An online collection of links to CRS reports available on the web. Reports are browsable by subject, date, title and order code. The site also includes links to other online collections of CRS reports.

  • Federal Government Resources - Legislative Branch
    House, Senate & Joint Committee web sites, Senate & House Directories and more. (Univ. of Michigan Documents Center)

  • Links to Congressional Information from Official & Non-Official Sources (Library of Congress Internet Resource Page)

  • U.S. Legislative Information Sources on the Internet
    A very well organized web site of links to Federal legislative information. (Bowling Green State)

Other Sites for Locating Federal Documents & Publications


Acronyms, Abbreviations & Glossaries

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